Writing Tips, How to be a Consultant, IR Books, Ask Buys Bloglines

Writing:
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes

How to Be a Consultant:
Create The Warm Fuzzy Feelingâ„¢. Reading it certainly takes much longer than 10 minutes, but it is well worth it if you are considering becoming a consultant.

The list is great, but on the web / marketing front I would also add create affiliate and content sites to help build a stable income stream when down periods occur.

Even when you have few clients you help shore up your technical understand by creating things. If you create great sites then they will make money and you will be able to better filter what work you are willing to take on. If you create lousy sites then they will make for great research and will help you identify symptoms of a lousy site when prospective customers contact you.

As stated in that article, it can't be overly stressed

• how important it is to be easily available; &

• how amazingly well syndicated articles act as sophisticated salesmen

found on SearchEngineBlog

Information Retrieval Books:
A while ago I read A Theory of Indexing
by Gerard Salton. I also have heard good things about Information Retreival by C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen, and Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. What information retrieval technology books have you read and liked? Wonder if guys like GoogleGuy have a favorite IR book :)

Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines?
it is what people are saying...

Trademark Laws:
Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law

Would You Name Your PPC?
RipUsOff.com...just randomly came across it and after seeing so many articles about click fraud it would appear as though that name could be took the wrong way.

My Favorite Muppet:
Flying Gonzo, though the Cookie Monster is also cool.